Andreas Portune
Andreas Portune (born November 23, 1875 in Sünzhausen ; † May 23, 1945 in Roßlau (Elbe) ) was a socialist politician and trade unionist .
Life
Portune, who spent part of his childhood in Italy, France and Belgium, learned the trade of metal grinder, joined the German Metalworkers' Association and the SPD at an early age and had been a volunteer for both organizations since 1903. From 1910 he was also a reporter for the social democratic Frankfurter Volksstimme . As an opponent of the truce policy of the SPD leadership during the First World War , he joined the USPD in 1917 , of which he was the full-time District Secretary for Hesse until 1921. In 1922 he reunited with a large part of the USPD with the SPD and worked professionally as a metal worker again.
In the SPD of the 1920s, Portune belonged to the left and pacifist wing and was part of the minority at the SPD party congress in 1929, which tried in vain to prevent the Reichstag faction from approving the construction of armored cruisers . Elected to the Reichstag in 1930 , Portune belonged to the group of six members who, after repeatedly violating parliamentary group discipline, were expelled from the party in September 1931 and founded the Socialist Workers' Party of Germany (SAPD). Here Portune headed the Hessen-Nassau district and was also a member of the extended party executive committee. Belonging within the party to the left-wing social democratic-pacifist wing around Anna Siemsen , Portune supported the dissolution of the majority of the board around Max Seydewitz and Kurt Rosenfeld at the end of February 1933 and left the party with them.
During the Nazi era, Portune took part in resistance activities , he was arrested in 1943 and sentenced to three years in prison on charges of undermining military strength . Liberated from a concentration camp in early May 1945 , he died a few weeks later of the consequences of his imprisonment.
Commemoration
Since 1992 one of the 96 memorial plaques for members of the Reichstag murdered by the National Socialists has been commemorating Portune in Berlin near the Reichstag .
literature
- Andreas Portune . In: Franz Osterroth : Biographical Lexicon of Socialism . Deceased personalities . Vol. 1. JHW Dietz Nachf., Hanover 1960, p. 241.
- Martin Schumacher (Hrsg.): MdR The Reichstag members of the Weimar Republic in the time of National Socialism. Political persecution, emigration and expatriation, 1933–1945. A biographical documentation . 3rd, considerably expanded and revised edition. Droste, Düsseldorf 1994, ISBN 3-7700-5183-1 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Andreas Portune in the catalog of the German National Library
- Andreas Portune in the database of members of the Reichstag
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Portune, Andreas |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German politicians (SPD, USPD, SAPD), MdR and trade unionists |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 23, 1875 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Sünzhausen |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 23, 1945 |
| Place of death | Rosslau (Elbe) |